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1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
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2The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R).
Source says "Killed".
Countess Judith of the Wetterau
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1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Duke Robert "Fortis" of France
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
He was the father of Odo, Count of Paris and Robert I of France, who both became King of France. Robert was the great-grandfather of Hugh Capet and thus the ancestor of all the Capetians.
Robert the Strong
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Robert the Strong (died September 15, 866) was a count of Tours. He was nominated by Charles the Bald missus dominicus for the Tours and Angers regions in 853. After a rebellion against Charles II in 855, he became duke for the region between Seine and Loire. From this time he was responsible for fighting against Normans and Britons, and he eventually met his demise in 866 fighting the Normans in the Battle of Brissarthe.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_the_Strong).
Princess Adélahide (Adelheid) (Adelaide) of the Holy Roman Empire
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1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
For his skill and bravery in resisting the attacks of the Normans, Odo was chosen king by the western Franks when the emperor Charles the Fat was deposed in 887, and was crowned at Compiègne in February 888. He continued to battle against the Normans, whom he defeated at Montfaucon and elsewhere, but was soon involved in a struggle with some powerful nobles, who supported the claim of Charles, afterwards King Charles III, to the Frankish kingdom. To gain prestige and support Odo owned himself a vassal of the German king, Arnulf of Carinthia, but in 894 Arnulf declared for Charles. Eventually, after a struggle which lasted for three years, Odo was compelled to come to terms with his rival, and to surrender to him a district north of the Seine. He died at La Fère on January 1, 898. See E Lavisse, Histoire de France, tome ii. (Paris, 1903); and E Favre, Eudes, comte de Paris et roi de France (Paris, 1893).
Odo, Count of Paris
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Odo (or Eudes) (c. 860 - January 1, 898) was a king of the Franks (888 - 898). He was a son of Robert the Strong, count of Anjou, and is sometimes referred to as duke of France and also as count of Paris.
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odo%2C_Count_of_Paris).
Duke Hugues (Hugh) "Magnus" of France
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Princess Hedwige (Hartwige) of Germany
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Duke Otto Eudes of (Burgundy) Bourgogne
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Duke Henri I of (Burgundy) Bourgogne
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Rutpert III (Robert) of Wormsgau
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1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Emperor Louis I "The Pious" of the Holy Roman Empire (twin)
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
In 806, Charlemagne wrote in his will that his sons Louis, Charles (co-King of the Franks), and Pepin (King of Italy) would divide the Empire on his death. Pepin died in 810, and Charles followed in 811. In 813, Byzantine nobles came to Charlemagne to recognize him as Emperor (he was 69 years old), and so he ordered Louis to come from Aquitaine to be crowned co-Emperor and designated successor. When Charlemagne died in 814, Louis succeeded to all thrones. Louis put his son Pepin on the throne of Aquitaine, made Lothar co-Emperor, and made Louis his son King of Bavaria. Louis the Pious first reformed the court in a "moral purge," sending all of the unmarried princessess to nunneries and sending Charlemagne's three illegitimate sons to monasteries. He then put down a rebellion in Italy. When his wife died, he remarried and had a son, Charles, in 823. In all of his wills he had made his three sons Pepin of Aquitaine, Louis of Bavaria, and Lothar his co-Emperor, successors. When Charles was born, he tried desperately to include him. In 829, he dropped Lothar's imperial title and sent him off to Italy. The next year the three brother united and attacked, forcing their father to abdicate, Lothar to be given back his imperial title, and Judith to be sent off to a nunnery. By the next year, Louis had re-gained his power, brought back his wife, dropped Lothar completely from the will, replaced him with Charles, and refused to allow Lothar to ever return to court without permission. That year Pepin revolted on his own. Louis of Bavaria followed the next year and they both attacked. Emperor Louis declaired that Pepin was formally deposed of his titles, but he could not enforce this order. In 833, the three brothers gained support from Pope Gregory IV and many of the Emperor Louis's own generals. Lothar made a settlement: Louis and Charles were imprisoned, Judith sent in exile to Italy under eye of Lothar, and Louis of Bavaria and Pepin were to gain territory (formerly under imperial authority). The next year, however, Pepin and Louis of Bavaria released their father and brother from jail, Judith was brother back, and peace was made. The next year Louis was re-crowned with great pomp. In 838, Pepin died and Louis put Charles on the throne of Aquitaine. The nobles, however, put Pepin's son Pepin II on the throne, and neither held authority. In 840, Louis died, and the brothers started a civil war over the Empire's division that lasted until peace was finally made in 843.
Louis I, the Pious, Frankish Emperor
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Born: 778
Died: 840
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Father: Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Hildegard
Married (1): Irmengard
Children:
Lothar I, Frankish Emperor
Pepin I, King of Aquitaine
Louis II, the German, Eastern Frankish King
Adelaide
Married (2): Judith of Bavaria
Children:
Gisela
Charles II, the Bald, Frankish Emperor
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King of Aquitaine 781-814
Co-Emperor 813-814
King of the Franks 814-840
Frankish Emperor 814-840
Louis was crowned king of Aquitaine (subkingdom to Franks) in 781 to slow rebellion after Charlemagne's defeat in Spain by the Saracen Moslems. In 793, the Saracens invaded Aquitaine under their Caliph Hisham. In 795, the Spanish March was created with William as its Count. The next year, King Louis and Count William defeated the Saracens and secured the Frankish-held areas of NE Spain. They continued to fight the Saracens until 813, when all of Navarre was conquered by William and Louis.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/299.html).3The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R).
Some sources say "Abt 0799".
Princess Ermengarde (Irmengarde) (Irmengard) of Hesbaye
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
This individual is duplicated under AFNs 1RGT-9B4 and 9GCS-V6.2Web site.
Irmengard
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Born: ?
Died: c817
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Father:
Mother:
Married (1): Louis I, the Pious, Frankish Emperor
Children:
Lothar I, Frankish Emperor
Pepin I, King of Aquitaine
Louis II, the German, Eastern Frankish King
Adelaide
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Irmengard married Charlemagne's son Louis the Pious in 798 when he was then only King of Aquitaine. When she died soon after he succeeded to the imperial throne, he remarried.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/311.html).3The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R).
Some sources say "Abt 0778".
Princess Hildegarde of the Holy Roman Empire
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1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Pepin I, King of Aquitaine
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Born: ?
Died: 838
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Father: Louis I, the Pious, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Irmengard
Married (1): ?
Children:
Pepin II, King of Aquitaine
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King of Aquitaine 817-838
Louis the Pious became Frankish Emperor in 814 with no rivals to the throne. He had three sons, Lothar, Pepin, and Louis. In 817, Lothar was made co-Emperor with his father and King of Italy to replace Bernard, Pepin made King of Aquitaine, and Louis made King of Bavaria. In 823, Louis had another son, Charles, this one by a new wife (the mother of the 3 brothers had died). Louis tried desperately to work Charles in as a successor, but the three brothers fought him everytime he tried to reform his will. After much conflict, Emperor Louis dropped Lothar's imperial title in 829 and sent him off to Italy. The next year the brothers attacked, reinstated Lothar with his imperial title, and had Judith, the mother of Charles, sent off to a nunnery. By 831, Louis had regained his power, brought back his wife, and again dropped Lothar's titles, this time all of them, and refused him to return to court ever again without permission. That year Pepin revolted. In 832, Louis of Bavaria joined Pepin, and the Emperor Louis declaired Pepin deposed of all royal titles but he had no power to enforce this declairation, so Pepin continued to rule. In 833, the three again attacked with support from Louis's own generals and from Pope Gregory IV himself. They imprisoned their father and brother, and exiled Judith to Italy under watch of Lothar, and Louis and Pepin gained territory. The next year, however, Louis and Pepin released their father and brother, brought back his wife, and peace was made. In 835, Louis was re-crowned Emperor with great pomp. Pepin died in 838, and while Louis tried to have Charles crowned king in Aquitaine, the nobles crowned Pepin's son Pepin II. Neither had the authority to rule in the country. In 840, Louis the Pious died, and the three surviving brothers began a civil war for the division of the Empire.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/313.html).
King Ludwig II (Louis) "The German" of Germany
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2Web site.
In 841, Charles and Louis of Bavaria ganged up on their brother Lothar, who had the support of Pepin II, who were defeated at Fontenay, France. In 842, Charles and Louis made a formal alliegance, and together put down a Saxon revolt that year and a revolt in Aquitaine under Pepin II. In 843, the Treaty of Verdun was made between the three brothers, by which Charles would rule the Western Frankish Kingdom (France), with Pepin's Aquitaine a subkindom under the ultimate authority of Charles, Lothar would rule the Middle Frankish Kingdom (Italy, Provence, and Lorraine) with the imperial title, and Louis would rule the Eastern Frankish Kingdom (Germany). In 858/9, Louis invaded the Western Frankish Kingdom, seeing how weak Charles was, on the invite of the Burgundians and Pepin II of Aquitaine. Charles couldn't raise an army for defense he was so unpopular with his nobles and his people. Louis called a synod of bishops, hoping that the clergy would hand over the crown to him. However, Hincmar, Archbishop of Reims, stayed loyal to Charles and rallied the Church against Louis. In 860, Louis pulled out of France with a much damaged reputation, but peace was made through Lothar II of Lotharingia, his nephew. That year also Lothar wished to divorce his childless wife and marry one Waldrada. The Church was very much against the divorce, and a bitter argument ensued with Lothar and Louis on one side, and Charles, Lothar's current wife, and Pope Nicholas I on the other. In 862, Lothar won the fight and got his new wife. The Pope sent envoys to Lothar, but they were no use, and Louis even marched on Rome before Lothar finally gave in. When Lothar died in 638, Louis and Charles divided up the kingdom (they had done the same when Charles of Provence died in 863). Louis died in 876.
Louis II, the German, Eastern Frankish King
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Born: c805
Died: 876
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Father: Louis I, the Pious, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Irmengard
Married (1): Emma of Bavaria
Children:
Carloman, King of Bavaria
Louis the Younger, King of Saxony
Charles III, the Fat, Frankish Emperor
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King of Bavaria 817-843
Eastern Frankish King 843-876
Louis the Pious became Frankish Emperor in 814 with no rivals to the throne. He had three sons, Lothar, Pepin, and Louis. In 817, Lothar was made co-Emperor with his father and King of Italy to replace Bernard, Pepin made King of Aquitaine, and Louis made King of Bavaria. In 823, Louis had another son, Charles, this one by a new wife (the mother of the 3 brothers had died). Louis tried desperately to work Charles in as a successor, but the three brothers fought him everytime he tried to reform his will. After much conflict, Emperor Louis dropped Lothar's imperial title in 829 and sent him off to Italy. The next year the brothers attacked, reinstated Lothar with his imperial title, and had Judith, the mother of Charles, sent off to a nunnery. By 831, Louis had regained his power, brought back his wife, and again dropped Lothar's titles, this time all of them, and refused him to return to court ever again without permission. That year Pepin revolted. In 832, Louis of Bavaria joined Pepin, and the Emperor Louis declaired Pepin deposed of all royal titles but he had no power to enforce this declairation, so Pepin continued to rule. In 833, the three again attacked with support from Louis's own generals and from Pope Gregory IV himself. They imprisoned their father and brother, and exiled Judith to Italy under watch of Lothar, and Louis and Pepin gained territory. The next year, however, Louis and Pepin released their father and brother, brought back his wife, and peace was made. In 835, Louis was re-crowned Emperor with great pomp. Pepin died in 838, and while Louis tried to have Charles crowned king in Aquitaine, the nobles crowned Pepin's son Pepin II. Neither had the authority to rule in the country. In 840, Louis the Pious died, and the three surviving brothers began a civil war for the division of the Empire.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/314.html).
Princess Alpaide (Adelaide) (Alpais) of the Holy Roman Empire
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Princess Rotrude of the Holy Roman Empire
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King Pépin (Carloman) of Italy
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2Web site.
Pepin, King of Italy
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Born: 777
Died: 810
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Father: Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Hildegard
Married (1): Bertha of Toulouse
Children:
5 daughters
Illeg. Children:
Bernard, King of Italy
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King of Italy 781-810
After his father Charlemagne defeated and conquered the Lombards, Pope Hadrian I in 781 crowned Pepin, 3 years old at the time, King of Italy (subkingdom under Charlemagne). In July of 810, Pepin died. He was planned to succeed to one third of the kingdom when his father died (shared with brothers Louis and Charles).
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/298.html).
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Princess Adélahide (Adelheid) of Italy
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Princess Adaele (Atala) of Italy
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Princess Gundrade (Gundrada) of Italy
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Princess Bertraide (Berthais) of Italy
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Princess Thbeodrate(Tetrada) of Italy
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Emperor Charlemagne of the Holy Roman Empire
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2Web site.
He was probably born in Aachen (Aix-la-Chapelle), on April 2, 742, as a son of the Pepin III "the Short." This Pepin was himself one of two brothers who effectively controlled the Frankish kingdom as "Mayors of the Palace" and who were sons of the renowned warrior Charles Martel. The year and the place of the birth of Charlemagne are both uncertain, according to the contemporary scholar Alcuin he could have been born as late as 745 - others suggest Liege as the place of his birth. It is not certain that Bertrada (or Bertha), the mother of Charlemagne, a daughter of Charibert, Count of Laon, was legally married to Pepin until some years later than either 742 or 745. In 751 Pepin the Short, having sought the consent of the then pope, dethroned the last of the ineffectual Merovingian royal line and assumed the royal title himself. He was crowned by Pope Stephen II at St. Denis on the Seine, on the 28th of July, 754.
Charlemagne
King of the Franks
Holy Roman Emperor
The widely conquering and powerful king of the Franks (768-814) and Emperor of the Romans (800-14) that English speakers today know as Charlemagne (742-814), or Charles the Great, was known in latin as Carolus Magnus. He is today remembered by the French as Carlus Magnus and by the Germans as Karl der Grosse - both these peoples see him as having had a positive role in their respective histories.
Besides anointing Pepin, Pope Stephen anointed both Charlemagne and his younger brother Carloman. Within the year Pepin invaded Italy to protect the pope against the Lombards, and in 756 he again had to rush to the pope's aid. From 760 on, Pepin's main military efforts went into the conquest of Aquitaine, the lands south of the Loire River. Charlemagne accompanied his father on most of these expeditions. When Pepin died in 768, sovereignty of his realms was divided according to an arrangement, as finalised by Pepin before his death, between his two sons. Frankish custom supported such divisions of territory amongst the sons of rulers. Charlemagne sought an alliance with the Lombards by marrying (770) the daughter of their king, Desiderius (reigned 757-774). Some significant infighting between the brothers was ended by Carloman's death on 4 December, 771. In line with Frankish custom Charlemagne assumed control of the vast lands Carloman had inherited and a less serious dispute was continued thereafter with Carloman's descendants who took refuge in the court of Desiderius. Relations between Charlemagne and Desiderius were further complicated by Charlemagne having divorced Desiderius' daughter in 771 in order to marry a beautiful Swabian lady. After Pope Adrian I appealed to Charlemagne for help (against Desiderius who had invaded the papal lands in his efforts to secure papal recognition of titles for Carloman's sons) the Frankish king invaded Italy, deposed his erstwhile father-in-law (774), and himself assumed the royal title. He then journeyed to Rome and reaffirmed his father's promise to protect papal lands. From about 772 Charlemagne was frequently involved in wars with other, often pagan, peoples. The Saxons were numbered amongst the earliest and most enduring (over 30 years!!!) of these adversaries as Charlemagne attempted to forcefully induce them to accept baptism. Other campaigns were pursued in today's Spain (778) and Bavaria (788) and against the Avars (791-6) who held sway over much of today's Hungary and Austria. The considerable inheritance that had derived from Pepin together with the vast lands that Frankish armies under Charlemagne had won control over taken together constituted a remarkably powerful kingdom. On Christmas Day 800, as Charlemagne knelt in prayer in Saint Peter's Basilica in Rome, Pope Leo III placed an Emperor's crown upon his head. It is not clear that Chartlemagne expected this but whether he did or not the people assembled in the church acclaimed him the great, pacific emperor of the Romans. Western rulers and popes had tender to regard the Emperors in Constantinople with the respect due to a sovereign previous to this but a disputed succession to that title helped to clear the way for this coronation. Charlemagne maintained a more permanent royal capital than had any of his predecessors. His favorite residence from 794 on was at Aachen. He delighted in the good hunting territory in that locality. An imposing church and a palace were constructed there based, in part, on architectural borrowings from Ravenna and Rome. At his court he gathered scholars from all over Europe, the most famous being the English cleric Alcuin of York, whom he placed in charge of the palace school. This school became the focus of a renaissance in learning - the so-called Carolingian renaissance. From the 790s the lands controlled by Charlemagne began to experience what later proved to be a most grievious scourge. Viking longships bore vigourous bands of warriors along the sea-coasts and up navigable rivers leading to much spoil and devastation. Charlemagne attempted to combat this new threat by building up a naval force but such destructive raidings were not effectively prevented. The empire did not expand significantly after 800. In 813 Charlemagne designated his sole surviving son, Louis, as his successor, and personally crowned him in a ceremony conducted at Aachen. Charlemagne died at Aachen, on January 28, 814 after some four years of poor health.
(http://www.age-of-the-sage.org/historical/biography/charlemagne.html).
Empress Hildegard of the Holy Roman Empire
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Hildegard
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Born: c757
Died: 783
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Father: ?
Mother: ?
Married (1): Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Children:
Charles
Pepin, King of Italy
Louis I, the Pious, Frankish Emperor
Lothar
Berthe
Rohtrud
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Charlemagne married Hildegard in 771 after divorcing Desideria. With her, he had most of his children and all of his heirs. She was the daughter of an Alemani duke.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/296.html).
Emperor Charles II of the Holy Roman Empire
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Charles
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Born: ?
Died: December 811
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Father: Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Hildegard
Married (1): ?
Children: ?
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Charles, from the beginning, was always intended to succeede his father, Charlemagne. He often accompained his father, and even led some of the forces in the Saxon campaign in 783-4. He spent Christmas in 800 at Rome when his father was crowned Emperor to be coronated king himself. Charlemagn's will of 806 set up equal divisions of his Empire for his children Charles, Pepin, and Louis. Louis was the only one that out-lived his father. Charles died of a stroke in December of 811, a little over two years before his father.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/297.html).
Princess Adélahide(Adelheid) of the Holy Roman Empire
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Princess Rotrude (Rohtrud) of the Holy Roman Empire
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Rohtrud
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Born: ?
Died: 810
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Father: Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Hildegard
Married (1): Constantine VI, Byzantine Emperor
Children: ?
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Rohtrud was a daughter of Charlemagne, briefly married to a Byzantine Emperor, who for the rest of her life lived at court.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/302.html).
Princess Bertha (Berthe) of the Holy Roman Empire
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Berthe
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Born: ?
Died: ?
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Father: Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Hildegard
Married (1): ?
Children: ?
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Berthe was one of Charlemagne's daughters. When his son Louis the Pious became Emperor in 840, Berthe was sent away from court (probably to a nunnery).
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/301.html).
Prince Lothaire (Lothar) of the Holy Roman Empire (twin)
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Lothar
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Born: 778
Died: c779
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Father: Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
Mother: Hildegard
Married (1): ?
Children: none
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Lothar was the twin brother of Louis the Pious who died at a very young age.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/300.html).
Princess Gisaele of the Holy Roman Empire
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Princess Hildegarde of the Holy Roman Empire
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Countess (Mrs. William of Toulouse)
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
King Pépin III "The Short" of France
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Pepin III, the Short, King of the Franks
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Born: ?
Died: 768
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Father: Charles Martel, Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia
Mother: Chrotrud
Married (1): Bertrada of Laon
Children:
Carloman, King of the Franks
Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
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Mayor of the Palace of Austrasia 741-751
King of the Franks 751-768
When his father Charles Martel died in 741, Pepin III and his brother Carloman succeeded as joing Mayors of the Palace of Austrasia. In 746, Carloman abdicated and became a monk, leaving Pepin to rule all of Austrasia on his own. In 750, Pepin received papal permission from Pope Zachary to take the Frankish crown from King Childeric III. In 751, Zachary formerly deposed Childeric, and Pepin became the first Caroliginian king of the Franks. In 753, Pope Stephen went to Gaul to affirm Pepin's crown. In 755, on Stephen's wishes, Pepin attacked the Lombards of Italy who were harrasing the Roman See, and peace was made. The next year, the Lombard king again marauded near Rome, was again defeated, and again made peace with Pepin. That year, Pepin promised the Church Frankish protection, thus breaking ties with the Eastern Empire that were only needed for Italian safety. In 760, Pepin and Duke Waifar of independent Aquitaine started a war which lasted many years. In 764, both sides were tired, and the war took a one year break. Pepin launched a final campaign against Aquitaine in 766 with full force, Aquitaine was defeated, and Waifar and his family were executed. By 768, the year Pepin died, Aquitaine had been completely conquered.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/210.html).
Countess Berthe (Bertrade) (Bertrada) of Laon
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
Bertrada of Laon
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Born: ?
Died: 783
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Father: Charibert, Count of Laon
Mother: Bertrada
Married (1): Pepin III, the Short, King of the Franks
Children:
Carloman, King of the Franks
Charlemagne, Frankish Emperor
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Bertrada was the wife of King Pepin III of the Franks, the first of the Carolingian dynasty, and mother of the famous conqueror and emperor Charlemagne.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/204.html).
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
Princess Gertrude of the Franks
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
King Carloman of (Burgundy) Bourgogne
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2Web site.
In 769, Aquitaine rebelled and both brothers went to face the problem. Carloman marched back home without striking a blow, leaving Charlemagne to subdue Aquitaine on his own, which he did. The hatred between the brothers was temporarily settled by their mother, Bertrada. The Lombards were making many threats to Pope Hadrian, and so he called for the Frankish kings for protection. Carloman was pro-Lombard, so Charlemagne was again on his own. In 771, the Lombard king Desiderius invaded Rome and took much Papal land. At the end of that year, Carloman died, leaving Charlemagne the entire Frankish kingdom.
Carloman, King of the Franks
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Born: c751
Died: December 771
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Father: Pepin III, the Short, King of the Franks
Mother: Bertrada of Laon
Married (1): Gerberge
Children:
several sons
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King of the Franks 768-771
When Pepin III died in 768, his sons Carloman and Charles I (called Charlemagne towards the end of his reign) succeeded as Kings of the Franks. Carloman received the strong interior - Paris and Orleans, and Charlemagne received the rebellious states and border lands in a NW crescent around Carloman's kingdom. Either Pepin did this because he favored Carloman, or because he knew that Charlemagne was a better general and needed to be the one to face the rebellions.
(http://www.ghgcorp.com/shetler/oldimp/211.html).
1Web site.
Children
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1 Emperor [King of France] Charlemagne CAROLINGIAN of Holy Roman Empire
2 Princess Rothaide CAROLINGIAN
3 Princess Adelaide CAROLINGIAN (a nun)
4 Princess Gertrude CAROLINGIAN
5 King Carloman CAROLINGIAN of Burgundy
6 Prince Gilles CAROLINGIAN
7 Prince Pepin CAROLINGIAN [Died as Child]
8 Princess Gisele CAROLINGIAN (a nun)
9 Princess Ade CAROLINGIAN
(http://www.plumdigital.com/2_webcards/wc61/wc61_092.html).
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
1The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R), Copyright (c) 1987, June 1998, data as of 5 January 1998, Family History Library, 35 N West Temple Street, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150 USA.
2The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Ancestral File (R).
Source says "12 May".